Use, Abuse, Manipulate and Lie

“It became easy for me to use and abuse my relationships in the church to get where I wanted to go.” – Athena Dean, 1996

“Without becoming a high-pressure, arm-twisting kind of salesperson, you can subtly get your customer doing what you want him to do. These gimmicks are nothing less than manipulation and witchcraft.” – Athena Dean, 1996

"The truth is, I've destroyed every close relationship I've ever had in my life because I'm a bully, a manipulator, a liar, a user, and completely arrogant. No wonder I've always gravitated to business and excelled there, because I never have to get close enough to people for them to see the real me. ...I am truly, no better than a man who calls himself a Christian and is well respected by all, who secretly beats his wife and kids at home behind close doors." – Athena Dean, 2011

Because Athena Dean was so loved at Sound Doctrine Church she must now attack with a foaming, rabid mouth. Athena Dean knows – and I can testify – that Sound Doctrine Church experiences some of the deepest aspects of love given by the Holy Spirit. But how could it be otherwise when those who pick up their cross in truth are filled with God's love?

Then He said to them all, "If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.  (Luke 9:23)

Because the words of Jesus are naturally offensive to your sin, Athena Dean is more than happy to let the offense of the cross create a lynch-mob mentality – a classic witch hunt.

 

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.  (Galatians 5:11)

But for those who are willing to think – and not become Athena Dean's gullible pawns in her wicked game – below is a link to an excerpt of Hating for Jesus.

Hating for Jesus remains a book that will change your life forever – if you let it. In no way, shape or form does it promote a hatred of others, but rather is completely about loving God and others.

It shows us how to love as it gently points us to God, the source of perfect, holy love that we might become people who love Him, our children and our neighbor as ourselves that we might all be brothers – if we allow God to pour His love through us. In doing so, the deeper our love for God and each other will grow.

Hating for Jesus is not a matter of going up to someone and slapping him in the face. Hating for Jesus is not the worldly kind of hate in which you seek to destroy someone else. It is about loving as Jesus loves the church.

There is no better way to love than to love with God’s love – indeed, a river of love wells up. Hating for Jesus reminds us that we must rely on God’s love rather than our own ability and wisdom to love others and to make room for God to fill us with Himself and His pure love – and that’s in the Bible:

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.  (1 John 4:16 NIV)

You see, we cannot see His love or show love apart from God. Through Him we might come to really love one another according to God’s will and be filled with the fruit of God’s love – in short, be given the power to love. Even Paul said that nothing good lived in him.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.  (Romans 7:18)

Taking all Scriptures into account, Hating for Jesus, simply directs us to God so that only His love and life remain in us.

As you can see, you have been lied to on a massive scale by Athena Dean and her hate-filled lynch mob that she uses to help market her lies. Do not be taken in by her betrayal and hatred.

Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.  (Matthew 24:10)

  

Download an excerpt from Hating for Jesus, available here.